Download or read book Top Soccer Tournaments Around the World written by Mauricio Velazquez de Leon and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2010-01-15 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains information about the top soccer tournaments around the world.
Download or read book Top Soccer Tournaments Around the World written by Mauricio Velázquez de León and published by Rosen Central. This book was released on 2010-01 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains information about the top soccer tournaments around the world.
Download or read book The Story of the World Cup written by Brian Glanville and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of football's World Cup from its inception in 1930 to the 1994 tournament in the USA, with accounts of individual games, behind-the-scenes stories, and character sketches of outstanding managers and players. Team line-ups and statistical summaries are included.
Download or read book The World Cup written by Matt Scheff and published by Millbrook Press. This book was released on 2020-08-01 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get an inside look at the men's and women's soccer World Cup. Explore the phenomenal performances, jaw-dropping goals, and biggest celebrations that have made the World Cup the most popular sports event in the world.
Download or read book World Cup written by David Whitfield and published by Weigl Publishers. This book was released on 2019-08-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The World Cup is an international competition that pits the best soccer teams from around the world against each other to determine the world champion. This tournament is held only once every four years. Learn more about this fascinating championship in World Cup, a title in the We Are the Champions series. Each title in the series features easy-to-read text, stunning visuals, and a challenging educational activity. A unique book code printed on page 2 unlocks multimedia content. These books come alive with video, audio, weblinks, slideshows, activities, hands-on experiments, and much more.
Download or read book World Cup written by Alex Monnig and published by ABDO Publishing Company. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The World Cup soccer tournament is one of Sports' Greatest Championships! Since the first tournament in 1930, hundreds of thousands of people have followed the 32-team tournament. Now, young readers can learn about the World Cup's history, the famous teams and players, the spectacular goals, and the future of the sport from in their library. Informative sidebars add to the high impact photographs and easy-to-read text, bringing Sports' Greatest Championships to readers of all ages. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. SportsZone is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
Download or read book World Cup An Action Packed Look at Soccer s Biggest Competition written by Matt Christopher and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Soccer around the World written by Charles Parrish and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-04-21 with total page 727 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two leading sports authorities explore the culture of soccer around the world, considering the sport as a means to better understand a society's past, present, and future. How popular is soccer worldwide? Here's one indicator: 3.2 billion people—nearly half of the planet's population—tuned in to watch the 2010 World Cup on television. Soccer matches attract a gargantuan number of fans from around the globe due to the popularity of the sport itself but also because of the nationalism it inspires and the entertainment spectacle of the big games. Distinguished authors and sports authorities, Charles Parrish and John Nauright, examine how soccer impacts societies worldwide by shaping national identities, providing common ground for diplomatic issues, and forging economic and social development. This one-volume geographic guide studies the places in which soccer has a major impact, examining each region's teams, major tournaments, key players, and international performance. The authors organize the book geographically by region and country, with entries reviewing the history of the sport and cultural impact on the area. Each profile concludes with fascinating game-based statistics, such as winners of major tournaments and top goal scorers. The book covers 20 countries including England, Brazil, Egypt, the United States, Cameroon, and Korea.
Download or read book World Cup written by Justin Petersen and published by Scobre Educational. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follow the action of the beautiful game, bearing witness to the world's most popular sporting event, the World Cup.
Download or read book The World Cup written by Terry Crouch and published by White Lion Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The World Cup: The Complete History is one of the few truly encyclopedic guides to the world's premier soccer tournament, from its earliest days to the 2006 World Cup finals. The book is notable for its comprehensiveness, featuring: a chapter for every competition; every single result of every match; every single player in every team; and a detailed round-up of the entire progress of each tournament. There could be no more complete or reasonably-priced reference book for World Cup fans" -- from the publisher (January 2007).
Download or read book Soccer around the World written by Charles Parrish and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-04-21 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two leading sports authorities explore the culture of soccer around the world, considering the sport as a means to better understand a society's past, present, and future. How popular is soccer worldwide? Here's one indicator: 3.2 billion people—nearly half of the planet's population—tuned in to watch the 2010 World Cup on television. Soccer matches attract a gargantuan number of fans from around the globe due to the popularity of the sport itself but also because of the nationalism it inspires and the entertainment spectacle of the big games. Distinguished authors and sports authorities, Charles Parrish and John Nauright, examine how soccer impacts societies worldwide by shaping national identities, providing common ground for diplomatic issues, and forging economic and social development. This one-volume geographic guide studies the places in which soccer has a major impact, examining each region's teams, major tournaments, key players, and international performance. The authors organize the book geographically by region and country, with entries reviewing the history of the sport and cultural impact on the area. Each profile concludes with fascinating game-based statistics, such as winners of major tournaments and top goal scorers. The book covers 20 countries including England, Brazil, Egypt, the United States, Cameroon, and Korea.
Download or read book The World Cup written by Matt Doeden and published by Millbrook Press (Tm). This book was released on 2018 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Series statement from publisher website.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of the FIFA World Cup written by Tom Dunmore and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2015-01-14 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every four years, the FIFA World Cup captures the global imagination like no other sporting spectacle. With a cumulative television audience of several billion people tuning in to the 2014 World Cup, and an estimated 700 million watching the finals—including more than 25 million in the United States alone—the World Cup is the world’s most-watched sporting event. The Encyclopedia of the FIFA World Cup provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date information available on the history of this incomparable event. An introductory narrative explains the origins and historical progression of the World Cup, while a chronology traces the development of the World Cup since it was first held in 1930. Hundreds of entries cover the players and coaches who have participated in the World Cup and made the most memorable contributions to the event’s history. Additional entries include officials, stadiums, overviews of each major country’s performances, and more. A separate section provides detailed entries for each World Cup finals tournament. Appendixes contain details on every participant in World Cup history, as well as top performers, officials, and World Cup records. Including an indispensable bibliography on the key World Cup texts, Encyclopedia of the FIFA World Cup is an essential reference for soccer fans, players, and researchers alike.
Download or read book The FIFA World Cup written by Clemente A. Lisi and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-10-12 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first complete history of the FIFA World Cup with a preview of the 2022 event in Qatar. Every four years, the world’s best national soccer teams compete for the FIFA World Cup. Billions of people tune in from around the world to experience the remarkable events unfolding live, both on and off the field. From Diego Maradona’s first goal against England at the 1986 World Cup to Nelson Mandela’s surprise appearance at the 2010 final in South Africa, these unforgettable World Cup moments have helped to create a global phenomenon. In The FIFA World Cup: A History of the Planet's Biggest Sporting Event, veteran soccer reporter Clemente A. Lisi chronicles the tournament from 1930 to today, including a preview of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. Lisi provides vivid accounts of individual games, details the innovations that impacted the sport across the decades, and offers biographical sketches of greats such as Pelé, Diego Maradona, and Lionel Messi. In addition, Lisi includes needed, objective coverage of off-field controversies such as the FIFA corruption case, making this book the only complete and impartial history of the tournament. Featuring personal interviews and behind-the-scenes stories from the author’s many years attending and covering the World Cup, as well as stunning color photography, The FIFA World Cup is the definitive history of this global event.
Download or read book The World Cup written by David Whitfield and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Introduction to Sociology written by Frank van Tubergen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensive and engaging, this textbook introduces students not only to foundational sociological work, but also to insights from contemporary sociological theory and research. This combined approach ensures that students become familiar with the core of sociology: key concepts, theories, perspectives, methods, and findings. Students will acquire the ability to think like a sociologist, investigate and understand complex social phenomena. This text presents a complete sociological toolkit, guiding students in the art of asking good sociological questions, devising a sophisticated theory and developing methodologies to observe social phenomena. The chapters of this book build cumulatively to equip students with the tools to quickly understand any new sociological topic or contemporary social problem. The textbook also applies the sociological toolkit to selected key sociological issues, showing how specific sociological topics can be easily investigated and understood using this approach. Taking a global and comparative perspective, the book covers a rich diversity of sociological topics and social problems, such as crime, immigration, race and ethnicity, media, education, family, organizations, gender, poverty, modernization and religion. The book presents a range of helpful pedagogical features throughout, such as: Chapter overview and learning goals summaries at the start of every chapter; Thinking like a sociologist boxes, encouraging students to reflect critically on learning points; Principle boxes, summarizing key sociological principles; Theory schema boxes, presenting sociological theories in a clear, understandable manner; Stylized facts highlighting key empirical findings and patterns; Key concepts and summary sections at the end of every chapter; and Companion website providing additional material for every chapter for both instructors and students, including PowerPoint lecture notes, discussion questions and answers, multiple-choice questions, further reading and a full glossary of terms. This clear and accessible text is essential reading for students taking introductory courses in sociology. It will also be useful for undergraduate and graduate courses in other social science disciplines, such as psychology, economics, human geography, demography, communication studies, education sciences, political science and criminology.
Download or read book Introduction to UEFA Euro 2024 qualifying written by Gilad James, PhD and published by Gilad James Mystery School. This book was released on with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The UEFA Euro 2024 qualifying is the process through which 55 European nations compete to qualify for the final tournament. The qualifying process has undergone some changes from previous editions, with a new format being implemented. In this format, all 55 teams will be split into ten groups, with the top two teams of each group automatically qualifying for the final tournament. The third-placed team in each group will proceed to the playoffs, where they will compete for the remaining four spots in the final tournament. The qualifying process will see the introduction of the UEFA Nations League playoff route, which will be used to determine the final four teams that will participate in the tournament. This route involves the 16 highest-ranked teams from the Nations League, who failed to qualify from their respective groups, competing against each other for the final four spots in the tournament. The qualifying process is expected to be highly competitive, with some exciting matches expected to be played. The UEFA Euro 2024 qualifying will be an opportunity for some of the best teams in Europe to showcase their skills and secure their place in the final tournament.
